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According to Judicial Watch the Clinton administration is busy "wiping" all of its hard drives. Wiping is a process that writes various patterns of ones and zeroes across a hard drive to make it impossible to recover data that has been deleted. It is the electronic version of burning a paper file… or maybe burning a shredded file might be more accurate due to the thoroughness of the process.
The legal procedure of clearing White House computers during a transition is to make pictures of directories before reformatting the drive. The picture then becomes part of the official record. The Clinton administration has evidently decided to end its tenure as illegally as it has conducted it and destroy the records of its activities that might turn into evidence against it by a more honest Bush administration.
It is reported that Clinton aides Mark Lindsay and Michael Lyle are heading up the project under the oversight of Charles Nash, a supervisor in the White House's records management unit. The destruction of evidence is starting at the top with White House attorneys' computers and working down. In doing this they can possibly destroy the more incriminating data before a judge rules on the injunction requested by Judicial Watch.
[ TCN ]
The central theme that Bush has presented on Clinton scandals has consistently been that they need to be put in the past. In doing so he has begun to put himself in the middle of them.
When the Bush nomination of Chinagate figure Norman Mineta for Secretary of Transportation didn't draw fire, he evidently decided that the public had accepted his theme of ignoring corruption and maybe even treason. (We'll never know without a thorough investigation.) With the knowledge that his chosen ignorance was acceptable came the conclusion that Elaine Chao, the wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell was a reasonable substitute for Linda Chavez.
It has been revealed that John Huang funneled at least two thousand dollars into the campaign coffers of Mitch McConnell and that there were several meetings between Chao and Huang during the same campaign cycle.
It was also revealed by World Net Daily that Elaine Chao and her father have extensive personal ties to communist China's President Jiang Zemin. They further described the ties as "regular" and "deep."
Bush's willingness to overlook corruption is very troubling. It is a signal that he is willing to place "unity" above character and compromise ahead of what is best for the nation.
We urge all of our readers to contact your Senators today and demand an investigation of the Chinagate connections of Chao and McConnell. We also encourage you to contact the Bush transition team and demand that cabinet nominations meet the moral and ethical standard these high offices deserve.
** Bush Transisiton Team
Fax: (413) 460-2609
Email: advice@BushCheneyTransition.com
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Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition Foundation, Inc.
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McLean, VA 22102
[ TCN ]
MIAMI - George W. Bush would have gained six more votes than Al Gore if all the dimples and hanging chads on 10,600 previously uncounted ballots in Miami-Dade County had been included in the totals, according to a review by the Palm Beach Post.
If everything were counted -from the faintest dimple to chads barely hanging on ballots - the Post review showed 251 additional votes for Mr. Bush and 245 additional votes for Mr. Gore.
[COX NEWS SERVICE ]
Many conservatives have been saying for months that Clinton/Gore did not intend to leave office. At TCN we have until recently questioned this line of thought. Signals sent in recent days tend to support the theory though, and we are starting to wonder if Clinton/Gore might really try to retain power even after January 20th.
It is very troubling that Clinton is planning to keep an office in the White House complex. Historically ex-presidents have rented private space for their offices and generally in their home state. Clinton plans to stay in DC. This is a serious sign to those of us looking for the end of the Clinton Era.
The Tennessean has also announced that Gore is going "home" to DC. The unanswered question is "Why?" Until this last weekend the rumor mill had him running for governor of Tennessee. Has Clinton offered him a better deal in his shadow government?
The Bush administration has given indication that it is not going to go after Clinton corruption. With the nomination of two Chinagate figures to his cabinet, Bush has signaled that he isn't concerned about corruption in the federal government. Clinton has very likely seen this as a green light to continue his illegal and treasonous practices right under the nose of the new administration.
Bush has also shown that in his willingness to "get along" he can be easily manipulated, a weakness that Clinton will be quick to capitalize on.
From the signals we are receiving, it appears that the end of the Clinton/Gore era may be nothing more than the beginning of the Clinton/Gore/Bush/Cheney era.
[ TCN ]
No one would argue that racing on the NASCAR circuit is dangerous. If the people who run the state of California had the oversight of NASCAR changes might go something like this.
To make NASCAR safer, all cars would be painted Federal Safety Orange. All race cars would be required to install carburetor restrictors to reduce the maximum speed to 50 MPH. All cars would also be equipped with massive rubber bumpers all the way around the car so that impacts from any direction could not injure the drivers.
Drivers and spectators are subjected to entirely too many fumes from burning gasoline and rubber, so the state would require that all race cars be converted to environmentally-friendly fuels and tires be made of compounds containing no fossil fuel bases.
Of course we all know that fatigue can cause an increase in reaction time of the drivers, so all races would be limited to no more than 50 miles.
Many drivers have been killed by slamming into those concrete walls so an investigative committee would be formed to determine what material might be used to construct padded walls around all race tracks of sufficient strength to absorb an impact without damage to car or driver, and sufficient height to protect spectators from flying debris from the track. Due to the violent nature of a car crash, it might be good if the wall was located in such a manner as to block the view of any crash from the spectator area, but this would probably require the formation of another investigative committee.
Of course, we realize that if California was to place these regulations on NASCAR, people would stop coming to races, prize money drop to zero due to lost gate receipts, drivers stop coming and NASCAR would be dead.
So what would California do to rejuvenate NASCAR? They would "deregulate" the industry of course. The headline would read something like this:
*** State Deregulates NASCAR.
* California eases color restriction on cars. Federal Safety Red and Federal Safety Yellow may also be used.
California has a problem because they have been regulating every aspect of energy. They have been hostile to new nuclear plants. They have over restricted fossil fuel plants. They have regulated retail and wholesale prices and say they "deregulated" when all they did was lift controls on wholesale prices.
Face the facts, California. You are paying the price for your corrupt big-government methodology. Lying about it isn't going to help. You have not deregulated anything, so the problems you now face could not possibly be the results of deregulation.
Let the retailers charge enough to make a profit. Let the wholesalers make a profit. Let the manufacturers make a profit. They know that they can price themselves out of business if the consumer cannot afford the retail price. And if the government stays out of it the consumer will see what it really costs to live the way they live. Conservation, stable prices and free enterprise will take care of themselves… if California stays out of the way and special interest groups are told to keep their money to pay their electric bills.
[ TCN ]
"Veteran demonstrators from violent protests in Seattle and Philadelphia are expected to converge on the nation's capital for President-elect Bush's inauguration along with thousands of others upset about the contested election. The presence of these and other groups is leading police to brace for the largest inaugural protests since the marches against the Vietnam War at Richard Nixon's 1973 swearing-in ceremony."
[ AP ]
LOS ANGELES - Ten years ago, the United States and its allies pounded Iraq with a massive show of military might. But today, the U.S. armed forces are in quite different shape.
Although the Department of Defense says we could re-fight the Gulf War as well as we did in the early 1990s, the numbers tell another tale.
In the last decade, the U.S. military has seen a 40 percent drop in active personnel, the Army's 10 combat divisions lack a full complement of offices, tankers and gunners, and the Air Force is 700 pilots short.
Every branch of the armed forces except for the Marines is struggling to find new recruits. Some are even offering $50,000 college scholarships and signing bonuses of up to $20,000.
This week saw the Army unveiling its new ad campaign, which dumps the venerable slogan "Be All You Can Be" for the new "An Army of One." The Army hopes it will convey a hip new message: Join up with us and you can still keep your individuality.
"We've got to improve the way we're communicating to young people so that more will see the military as an option," said Louis Caldera, secretary of the Army.
And Sgt. Alonzo Pierce, an Army recruiter, said that while "it may seem like we're desperate, but at the same time ... we do need a military and we need someone to protect this country."
Encouraging recruitment and improving the military are near the top of President-elect Bush's agenda.
"I will ask Congress to further the pay raise by a billion dollars a year to make sure our men and women in uniform are properly paid for their duty to America," Bush said. "We'll have a military equal to every challenge and superior to every adversity."
** It's Not Just Quantity
Retired Gen. Alexander Haig, a former secretary of state, says the quality of the armed forces must improve.
"I think the standards have gone down," Haig said. "I think this is the wrong direction. It's a mistake and it's got to be corrected fast."
Former Gen. Larry Skibby agrees that Washington hasn't got a moment to lose.
"History tells us there is a war in our future," Skibby said, "and we need to be ready for that war because we owe it to ourselves - and our own national security - and we owe it too the young people who are going to go in harm's way."
Retired Col. David Hackworth is even more critical of today's military: "It would have a hard time blasting into an old women's retirement home," he said, adding that while the U.S. military has gone into decline, Iraq's has been rebuilding.
Saddam Hussein's "military is no longer that beaten-down force it was 10 years ago," Hackworth said. "It's ready to go. It's combat effective."
[ FOX, Full article ]
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